RHBA-2020:0990 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for virt-who is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1416298 - Virt-who report wrong guests status for hyper-v when configure guests with same guest name
• BZ - 1447633 - Virt-who should send reports even when there's no update on hypervisor
• BZ - 1510712 - One piece of DEBUG message is produced to rhsm log when run virt-who by CLI without "-d" option.
• BZ - 1516120 - When the header option [config_name] is disabled or null value, some test results are not expected
• BZ - 1516209 - When "server" option is disabled or the value is null, some test results are not expected.
• BZ - 1519136 - Remove all the hypervisor backend from /etc/sysconfig/virt-who
• BZ - 1530254 - Some wrong reminder info is printed when run virt-who by /etc/sysconfig/virt-who with OWNER/ENV disabled or null value.
• BZ - 1712300 - No any response after kubevirt lost its connection with virt-who host
• BZ - 1714456 - The global option 'print_=true' doesn't work when start virt-who service
• BZ - 1720048 - rhsm_no_proxy doesn't work for local libvirt and vdsm mode
• BZ - 1720051 - No virtualization backend options shown in virt-who man page
• BZ - 1720154 - Failed to get and list "dmi.system.uuid" fact to rhsm log for kubevirt
• BZ - 1722560 - When rhsm credentials are wrong then host-to-guest mapping is not gathered
• BZ - 1727130 - Virt-who man pages is different than how it behaves.
• BZ - 1745768 - UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb2 in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)
• BZ - 1751122 - Remove ENV option from /etc/sysconfig/virt-who and virt-who help page
• BZ - 1751446 - Lose comment sign "#" for one line in /etc/virt-who.conf
• BZ - 1751624 - [RHEVM] Allow unicode characters in username
• BZ - 1759869 - Get wrong virt-who version by "#virt-who --version"

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index